In the beginning

• Writer - J.M Dematteis
• Penciler - Greg Luzniak
• Inker - Al Milgrom
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Colorist - Glynis Oliver
• Editor - Kelly Corvese
• Executive Editor - Bob Harras
• Editor in Chief - Tom Defalco

Summary

  Terrorists start a fire in the Kennedy Center, and X-Factor responds, rescuing the survivors.

  A shadowy government figure pays off Random (see last iss.) and is ordered to have him killed.

  Rahne is angry that she can only go to Muir to get her head fixed if Alex goes with her, but he doesn't have time for her.

  Jamie's dupes are aggressive, passive, and frivolous, while he himself is reading "Man, Mutant, and the New Humanity." It dawns on Lorna that he is infected (see iss. 91), but she is just then attacked by government operatives who want to capture her and use her as a weapon. Haven comes to her rescue.